January 29, 1968 Table Of Contents
Footloose
Once famed only for borax and mules, Death Valley is blooming as a resort
Yesterday/The Gipper
The Day the Gipper Went Out to Win One for $200
Notre Dame myth and Hollywood corn made a football Galahad out of George Gipp, but Galahad had a practical side
By Rick Talley
No Mistakes
It goes in here and it comes out there. Pro football's scouts may not know how the computer works, but the feedback is taking chance out of the player draft
By Tex Maule
Passagemaker
Frustrated by the shortcomings of the average express cruiser and yearning for the freedom of sail without the work it entails, a retired Navy man found inspiration in a fisherman's flopperstopper for a motor vessel rugged enough to take him across any sea. In 50,000 miles of cruising, his 'Passagemaker' has set a new style in yachts
By Tom C. Brody
Part 3: The Running Of The Green
ULTIMATE TRIUMPH: THE OLYMPIC 1,500
The years of learning, of training, of agony and ecstasy came to a glorious peak at the Melbourne Games when Delany swept to victory
By Ron Delany
People
Golf
Young tigers in the pro jungle
By Mark Mulvoy
Track & Field
By Pete Axthelm
The Mouth
Spouting Scripture instead of statistics, mixing Milton with backwoods banter, Bill Currie—a man sporting an omniscient memory and an omnipresent Piedmont drawl—inundates Carolina with play-by-plays on the air and everything from sermons to bawdy ballads off it
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Basketball's Week
By Mervin Hyman
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk
This season's best college basketball game was played before the sport's largest audience—watching (right) at the Astrodome, televiewing In 49 states—as Houston became the nation's top team, beating UCLA
By Joe Jares
After last weekend's Hahnenkamm, the Olympics begin to look like a horse race. Austria's Nenning won another downhill, Switzerland's Giovanoli another slalom, and Jean-Claude Killy leaped back to form
By Dan Jenkins
An 18-year-old figure skater from Montana put on a show in Philadelphia last week that wowed the crowd, shook up the judges and gave the world warning that it had better keep an eye on the U.S. at Grenoble
By Bob Ottum